Agressive memory caching

[Mike A. Leonetti]

On 05/07/10 12:41, Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Mike A. Leonetti
> <mleonetti at evolutionce.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have two different Ubuntu virtual servers (the guests) both running in
>> VMWare.  One of the servers is caching over 1.5 GB of memory filling up
>> the rest of the RAM.  The other server is not doing this.  Is this
>> really mainly only depedant on the applications running that the memory
>> is being cached so high?  VMWare keeps complaining that the Guest is
>> running out of memory.  I'm assuming this really isn't the case.
>>
>> --
>> Mike A. Leonetti
>>     
> Could this be a program with a memory leak?
>
>   
HTOP still shows that the cached memory is "free".  Just that it's
cached.  Would a memory leak cause this?